SMARTER Updates - Jan 2025
Happy new year! The SMARTER team sends best wishes to the entire exposure health research community. Our project, funded by NIEHS and initiated in 2024, is developing community-driven, shared, generalizable metadata and data management tools that support reproducible exposure health research. Sensor metadata is a major focus.
Public Comment
We are excited to invite exposure health researchers and sensor developers to provide feedback on the draft logical model and specifications, which are now available on GitHub. Your expertise is invaluable in ensuring the model and specifications are accurate, effective, and aligned with the latest advancements in the field. We encourage you to visit our public comment page for more detailed information and instructions on how to submit your comments.
Who might want to offer feedback? We would like to hear from anybody developing sensors or sensor informatics methods, using sensors in exposure health efforts, and/or developing informatics pipelines for exposure health. Your input will help shape the future of exposure health research, and we look forward to hearing from you!
ISES 2024 in Montreal
In October, Drs. Ram Gouripeddi & Julio Facelli presented information and findings from the SMARTER project at the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada: “Community-Driven Approaches for a Sensor Metadata Ecosystem in Exposure Health.” Attendees commented on the importance of this work and expressed support for the community-driven approach we are following - involving the exposure health community and the metadata elements captured to date.
DELPHI Data Science Symposium at University of Utah
Our outstanding students Ms. Sunho Im & Ms. Leela Sowmya Jandhyala presented their poster entitled “Metadata-centric Approaches for Incorporating Sensors into Exposure Health Informatics Ecosystems“ at an interdisciplinary data science meeting in Salt Lake City, UT. In their presentation, they described initial efforts to build and test a graph metadata model.
Leela Sowmya Jandhyala, MS and Sunho Im, MS present their work at the DELPHI Data Science Symposium in Salt Lake City, UT
Welcome to the team, Dr. Peter Taber!
In December, we welcomed Dr. Peter Taber to our team as a socio-technical consultant. Dr. Taber is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at University of Utah. Dr. Taber is a sociocultural anthropologist and clinical informaticist. He brings social science methodological expertise to understand the interaction of organizational context, work routines and lived experience.
Peter Taber, PhD
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The University of Utah SMARTER Project is funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (“Community-Driven Sensor Metadata Ecosystem for Exposure Health“, 1R24ES036134-01, Multi-Principal Investigators Ramkiran Gouripeddi & Mollie R. Cummins). The content of this web site is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
